Feds' Radios Have Significant Security Flaws

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @11:01AM from the listening-to-the-listeners dept.

OverTheGeicoE writes "The Wall Street Journal has a story describing how the portable radios used by many federal law enforcement agents have major security flaws that allow for easy eavesdropping and jamming. Details are in a new study being released today (PDF). The authors of the study were able to intercept hundreds of hours of sensitive traffic inadvertently sent without encryption over the past two years. They also describe how a texting toy targeted at teenage girls can be modified to jam transmissions from the affected radios, either encrypted or not."

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Re:The Federal Government Has Major IT Problems by couchslug · 2011-08-10 11:08 · Score: 3, Funny

"Why isn't there a mechanism in place to punish these folks?"
A fine idea, but let's outsource it to save money.

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You know what this means, don't you? by jd · 2011-08-10 11:12 · Score: 3, Funny

Kim Possible has become Evil!

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